Dr. Veronika Harmat Ph.D., assistant professor

Address: H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A

Room: 5.123

Email:

Phone: +36 (1) 372-2500 / 6547

Fax: +36 (1) 372-2592

Born At: April 24, 1973

Born In: Budapest

Lab: Protein crystallography lab.

Studies

• 2003,   Ph.D. in Structural Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University
• 1996,   M.Sc. in Chemistry Eötvös Loránd University

Posts Held

• 2014-2019 HAS, BRC, research fellow
• 2008- assistant professor, Eötvös Loránd University
• 2007- research fellow, Protein Modeling Group, HAS/ELTE
• 2003-2006 junior research fellow, Protein Modeling Group, HAS/ELTE
• 2001-2002  demonstrator, Eötvös Loránd University

Actual courses

• X-ray crystallography lectures (Chemistry M.Sc.)
• X-ray crystallography laboratory courses (Chemistry M.Sc.)
• Protein crystallography lectures (Chemistry and Structural Biology Ph.D., Biotechnology M.Sc.)
• Biocrystallography, Bioanalytics (X-ray crystallography, a part of the courses; in Chemistry M.Sc., Biotechnology M.Sc.)
• Inorganic chemistry calculations practice (Chemistry B.Sc.)
• General chemistry laboratory courses (Chemistry and Biology B.Sc.)

Teaching experiences

• 2011- Methods in protein crytallography, Ph.D. course
• 2006-, 2019- Protein crystallography, special course in Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology M.Sc.
• 1999- X-ray crystallography, semi-optional course in Chemistry
• 2000- X-ray crystallography laboratory course
• 2001-2002, 2008- General chemistry laboratory course (in Chemistry and Biology B.Sc.)
• 2008- General chemistry and Inorganic chemistry calculations  courses (in Chemistry B.Sc.); 
• 2009-2018 Inorganic chemistry laboratorycourse (in Earth Sciences B.Sc.)

Students

• Dr. Zsolt Dürvanger
• Anna J. Kiss-Szemán
• Máté Sulyok-Eiler
• Gergő Hegedűs
• Zoltán Orgován
• Luca Takács
• Ádám Végh

Research

Interest: Structural aspects of molecular recognition in protein action 

• Structure-function relationships of DJ-1 (Cooperation: RCNS Institute of Organic Chemistry, Research Group for Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Discovery)
• Serin proteases of the complement system (specificity, autocatalytic activity, regulation) (Cooperation: RCNS Institute of Enzymology, Structural Biophysics group; ELTE Department of Biochemistry)
• Acylpeptide hydrolases (specificity and quaterner strucutre) (Cooperation: RCNS Institute of Enzymology, Proteases group)
• Calmodulin/small molecule complexes (Cooperation: RCNS Institute of Enzymology, Lysophospholipid receptors group)
• Structure and function of dUTPases (Cooperation: RCNS Institute of Enzymology, Genome metabolism group, Technical University)
• Radiation damage of protein crystals (BRC, X-Ray Crystallography Laboratory)

Cooperation in protein crystallography: 

• ELTE Biokémiai tanszék (biokemia.elte.hu)
• Természettudományi Kutatóközpont (www.ttk.hu/ei/)
• Biostruct laboratórium (www.biostruct.org)
• Szegedi Biológiai Kutatóközpont (www.brc.hu/)

Publications

International scientific papers: 62
Hungarian scientific papers: 4
Book chapter, e-learning : 2, 1
Patent application: 1
Impact factor: 181
All citations / independent citations: 1290 / 867
H-index: 21
List of publications: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10003093

List of Publications

Awards

• 2006,   Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2001-2004,   Bolyai János Research Fellowship